10-letter words containing p, u, t
- conspectus — an overall view; survey
- contrecoup — an injury, esp to the brain, that occurs at the opposite side of the body from that which was struck
- copulating — Present participle of copulate.
- copulation — sexual intercourse.
- copulative — serving to join or unite
- copulatory — to engage in sexual intercourse.
- copycutter — an employee of a newspaper who separates copy into takes to facilitate printing.
- corrupting — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- corruption — Corruption is dishonesty and illegal behaviour by people in positions of authority or power.
- corruptive — tending to corrupt or produce corruption
- count upon — depend on, rely on
- counterpin — bedspread.
- counterspy — a spy working against or investigating enemy espionage
- countertop — A countertop is a flat surface in a kitchen which is easily cleaned and on which you can prepare food.
- coup stick — a stick with which some North American Indian warriors sought to touch their enemies in battle as a sign of courage.
- couplement — the action of coupling or the state of being coupled
- courtships — Plural form of courtship.
- cozy up to — to try to ingratiate oneself, or make friends, with
- crispature — the state of being crisped or crispate
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- cuckoopint — a European aroid plant, Arum maculatum, with arrow-shaped leaves, a spathe marked with purple, a pale purple spadix, and scarlet berries
- cup of tea — a favorite or well-suited thing, activity, etc.
- cupidities — Plural form of cupidity.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- curtain-up — the moment when the curtain is raised and a play or similar show begins
- cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
- cut a tape — To write a software or document distribution on magnetic tape for shipment. Has nothing to do with physically cutting the medium! "Cutting a disk" has also been reported as live usage. Related slang usages are mainstream business's "cut a check", the recording industry's "cut a record", and the military's "cut an order". All of these usages reflect physical processes in obsolete recording and duplication technologies. The first stage in manufacturing an old-style vinyl record involved cutting grooves in a stamping die with a precision lathe. More mundanely, the dominant technology for mass duplication of paper documents in pre-photocopying days involved "cutting a stencil", punching away portions of the wax overlay on a silk screen. More directly, paper tape with holes punched in it was an important early storage medium.
- cutesy pie — darling; sweetheart; sweetie (often used as a term of endearment).
- cutesy-poo — embarrassingly or sickeningly cute.
- deceiptful — Obsolete form of deceitful.
- deceptious — relating to deception or inclined to deceive
- deep south — The Deep South consists of the states that are furthest south in the United States.
- departures — Plural form of departure.
- depopulate — To depopulate an area means to greatly reduce the number of people living there.
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- depurative — used for or capable of depurating; purifying; purgative
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- deputation — A deputation is a small group of people who have been asked to speak to someone on behalf of a larger group of people, especially in order to make a complaint.
- deputising — to appoint as deputy.
- despiteful — spiteful; malicious
- despiteous — malicious; spiteful.
- despumated — Simple past tense and past participle of despumate.
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- dispiteous — malicious; cruel; pitiless.
- disputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- disputably — In a disputable manner.